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First Time Using Lemmy (lemmy.ko4abp.com)

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I live in upstate New York, I have a general class license, and this is my first time using Lemmy (or any federated social for that matter).

My mobile rig is a VR-N7500 "50W" VHF/UHF. It uses Bluetooth control from my phone, and it does APRS.

My QTH rig is a Xiegu G90 on a 40m EFHW powered by micro solar. I mainly do FT8, as well as a little VARA HF WinLink. (I'm a bit mic shy and my antenna setup isn't that great.)

I'm interested in POTA (and maybe SOTA).

Hope to meet some friendly folk!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don't mind sharing, what know-how and equipment do you have in regards to Lemmy?

I like learning :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not at all! I actual have a few enterprise class Dell servers here at home that I host a handful of things on for myself and some friends. I have always believed in a more distributed internet and so when I learned about this project, I had to get involved.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's very cool!

It's cool to run servers at home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its not cool. Its very hot. Keeping them cool is a constant battle! haha

I enjoy it. Media server, home automation, virtual desktops, and now Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For cooling do you use air, water, or both?

I want to run a home media server. Something like Jellyfin probably. Maybe a Minecraft server too.

I also interested in rolling my own VPN. So far I've just use an SSH tunnel for traffic tunneling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just use air cooling at the moment. I might have to get a little A/C unit for the closet though.

I run a Plex server, but I will likely be switching to Jellyfin soon.

Look into Kasm I am actually using it instead of a VPN because I can log into it, spin up a browser instance, and browse all of my local network with it directly in a web browser anywhere. I can also spin up a terminal in the browser and SSH into any box I need on my network.

For your hosting, I highly recommend Proxmox. It can do full on virtuals or containers and the interface is super easy to use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a little while, I had a tiny web page running on a raspberry pi at my house.

I also used that raspberry pi for the SSH tunnel.

Raspberry Pi 1 B+

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love Raspberry Pis. Recently burned up a Rpi4 and Im still sad about it... Still need to replace it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I want to grab one of the new models and make a portable station out of it for doing digital work. Mostly for stuff like POTA.